User blog comment:MentalZ/Valentine's Day/@comment-2231917-20110212154301/@comment-1153441-20110213163306

Wait, you're not saying that the Indians shouldn't have barged in there are you? Because they did kind of have a right to be there. Because if God hadn't used to Indians to help the Pilgrims, then all the Pilgrims probably would have either died or gone back home. Besides, then Indians brought food with them, so it's not like they were just showing up and taking all the food from the Pilgrims.

And you're forgetting the the Christian part of Thanksgivings roots. The Pilgrims (or separatists as everyone called them) originally came to America to seek peace to worship God in the way that they thought was right (and is right). Thanksgiving was a feast day they set aside so they could thank God for everything he had blessed them with. Sure, they were thankful for their family and friends, sure they were thankful for the food, but the One they were most thankful to was God, because they saw that none of this was possible without him. That's what the Christian roots of Thanksgiving were.